Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, some of the early young hopefuls of the Truman administration had already faded. Round-faced Hugh Fulton, the Manhattan lawyer who had been first to breakfast with Harry Truman the day after his inauguration, was still just a Manhattan lawyer who had once had breakfast with the President. And Old Friend Ed McKim, the Omaha insurance man who had been moved in as chief administrative assistant six weeks ago, was "drafted" for a vague...
...Chambery, in France, the train stopped. A mob formed. Word went round that the train was carrying home the Blue Division (Spaniards who fought with the Germans against Russia). With iron rods, clubs, stones, bottles, the French went to work on the passengers...
...Ernie Pyle who got him round the last big corner. On the basis of Ernie's glowing comments, Mauldin's drawings were picked up and syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. Bill Mauldin thought his wildest dreams had come true...
...months later, a soldier's wife, Jean was following Private Bill Mauldin on the dreary round of Army camps. In the spring of 1943, when she told him that a baby was on the way, Bill persuaded the Army Times to bring out a book of his cartoons. The Army Times paid him $100 down. Bill sailed off to war. He was in Sicily when his son was born...
Japan's aged (77) Premier Kantaro Suzuki shuffled through a round of desperate political activity. One day he sat through a five-hour emergency session of his Cabinet. The same day he talked long and earnestly with flinty General Jiro Minami, boss of the ultra-totalitarian Political Association of Great Japan. Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report. At the Meiji and Yasakuni shrines he prayed for the destruction of his country's enemies. Finally, with the Emperor looking on, he stood...